[coreboot] Bay trail and SATA legacy IDE mode

Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke.me at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 08:37:03 CET 2015


On Monday, February 09, 2015 07:05:04 AM Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote:
> But still... I have some limited knowledge of Coreboot from 15 months ago,
> and I am trying to understand if Coreboot x86 code has some influence on
> the SATA IDE mode. From what I am reading... There is a possibility!

Check src/soc/intel/baytrail/sata.c on how the registers are configured based 
on devicetree.cb


	if (!config->sata_ahci) {
		/* Set legacy or native decoding mode */
		if (config->ide_legacy_combined) {
 
> The silicon is BYT SoC, ATOM. The boot time to OS bootloader is around 300
> ms.
 
> My best understanding how this enumeration works for SATA is that all SATA
> are put in default AHCI mode. But some people (As Berth) must have SATA
> interfaces in IDE mode.

register "sata_ahci" = "0"
register "ide_legacy_combined" = "1"


Alex



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